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Definition of Sundews

Sundew
Sundew Sun"dew`, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.

Meaning of Sundews from wikipedia

- Subtropical sundews: These species maintain vegetative growth year-round under uniform or nearly uniform climatic conditions. Pygmy sundews: A group of...
- USCGC Sundew (WLB-404) was a 180-foot (55 m) sea going buoy tender (WLB). An Iris, or C-class tender, it was built by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Corporation...
- copious amounts of seed it produces, it has become one of the most common sundews in cultivation, and thus, one of the most frequently introduced and naturalised...
- Sundew can refer to: Sundew (album), a 1991 album by the Paris Angels Sundew (dragline) USCGC Sundew (WLB-404) The plant genus Drosera The sundew family...
- Drosera rotundifolia, the round-leaved sundew, roundleaf sundew, or common sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes...
- Sundew was a large electrically powered dragline excavator used in mining operations in Rutland and Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. It was the...
- commonly known as Portuguese sundew or dewy pine. In appearance, it is similar to the related genus Drosera (the sundews), and to the much more distantly...
- a unique purpose in some carnivorous plants. The plant genera Drosera (sundews), Pinguicula (butterworts), and others have leaves studded with mucilage-secreting...
- or red sundew), is a carnivorous plant of the family Droseraceae native to the Americas. This species differs considerably from the pink sundew, Drosera...
- "flypaper traps", but the trapping mechanism of sundews is often erroneously described as "p****ive". In fact, sundew traps are quite active and sensitive, and...